Academic Education 

11/2018 – on going
PhD in Classical Archaeology
Freie Universität Berlin – Institut für Klassische Archäologie
Dissertation: “ Bathing Culture in Roman Sicily (2 c. BCE – 2 c. CE)”
First Supervisor: Prof. Trümper / Second Supervisor: Prof. Caliò

03/2017
Master’s Degree in Archaeology (final mark 110/110 cum laude)
Sapienza, University of Rome – Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Thesis in Ancient Topography: “The Roman baths of south-eastern Sicily (provinces of Catania and Syracuse): between continuity and transformation of use”
Tutor: Prof. Migliorati / Cotutor: Arch. Caravaggi

01/2014
Bachelor’s Degree in Archaeology (final mark 110/110 cum laude)
Sapienza, University of Rome – Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Thesis in Methodology of Archaeological Research: “A context of south-eastern Sicily and its amphorae: the Fattoria delle Api – Scicli (RG)”
Tutor: Prof. Olcese

Scholarships and awards

10 –12/2021
Berlin - Oxford Doctoral Students Exchange (BerGSAS) – University of Oxford

04/2019 – on going
Doctoral Candidates at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) within the Doctoral Program Landscape Archaeology and Architecture (LAA)

04/2019 – 07/2022
Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin (NaFöG)

08/2018 – 01/2019
DAAD Short Term Grant – Freie Universität Berlin

03 – 08/2015
Erasmus Scholarship – Universität zu Köln

Professional Education

11/2018
Workshop “Historical Earthquakes. Dialog between Archaeology, Geology, Archeoseismology and Architecture”
Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Ostia Forum Project, Technische Universität Berlin, Topoi Excellence Cluster, Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Topoi Building Mitte

06/2018 &
10/2018
Workshop “Modelling Archaeological Landscapes. Bridging Past and Present in two Mediterranean Islands” supported by DAAD
University of Heidelberg and University of Catania
Kapetaniana (Crete) and Catania - Scicli (Sicily)

12/2017
Q-GIS course
Una Quantum inc. Cultural Association – Rome

10/2017 – 11/2017
Workshop on digitalization of graphic documentation: Digitalization of layer plants in Cad software, photo-editing, photogrammetry
Ancient Topography - Sapienza, University of Rome

01/2015 – 02/2015
Internship at the Drawings Archive – Ex Centrale Montemartini
Sovrintendenza di Roma Capitale

11/2014 – 02/2015
Workshop on ceramic materials: Recording, sampling, hand-drawing
Department of Ancient Topography – Sapienza, University of Rome

05/2014 – 06/2014
Hand-drawing course of ceramics
Methodology of archaeological research – Sapienza, University of Rome

04/2014 – 06/2014
Hand-drawing course of architectural decoration of the Imperial Fora
Fabrica Cultural Association – Rome

03/2014 – 04/2014
Workshop on the Marseilles wreck amphorae in collaboration with the DRASSM (Département des recherches archéologiques
subaquatiques et sous-marines)
Prof. Olcese (Sapienza, University of Rome) – Aix en Provence

06/2012 – 06/2013
Participation in a student initiative in the courses of Archaeological and Archaeometric Research Methodology with funding from Sapienza, University of Rome: "Trades in Antiquity: archaeological and scientific surveys in Ostia, Ischia and in the Aeolian Islands"
Prof. Olcese (Sapienza, University of Rome)

05/2011 – 05/2011
Workshop on the wreck loads of the Aeolian Islands held in Lipari within the course of Methodology of Archaeological Research
Prof. Olcese (Sapienza, University of Rome)

Excavations and Fieldwork

17/03/2025 – 22/03/2025,
09/09/2024 – 11/10/2024,
28/08/2023 – 7/10/2023 &
12/09/2022 – 7/10/2022
Trench Supervisor
Agrigento (Italy): Archaeological campaign of the Roman Gymnasium
Prof. Trümper, Dott. Lappi (Freie Universität Berlin)

13/09/2021 – 01/10/21
Pompeii (Italy): Archaeological and survey campaign of the Stabian Baths and its tabernae
Prof. Trümper (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Robinson (Oxford University), Prof. Giglio (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’)

12/04/2021 – 23/04/2021
Solunto (Italy): Survey campaign of the two Roman baths
In collaboration with Arch. Fino (Politecnico di Bari)

10/2020
Agrigento (Italy): Survey campaign of the Roman Gymnasium and the area north to the Hellenistic-Roman Temple
Prof. Trümper (Freie Universität Berlin)

10/2020
Taormina (Italy): Survey campaign of the Roman baths
In collaboration with Arch. Fino (Politecnico di Bari)

10/2019 – 11/2019
Agrigento (Italy): Survey campaign of the Roman Gymnasium and the area north to the Hellenistic-Roman Temple
Prof. Trümper (Freie Universität Berlin)

09/2019 
Grumentum (Italy): Survey campaign of the Roman Baths (total station recording and photogrammetry)
Prof. Migliorati, Prof. Ten (Sapienza, University of Rome), Dr. Tarlano (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio della Basilicata)

07/2019 – 08/2019
Gortyna (Greece): Recording, sampling, hand-drawing of artefacts
Prof. Caliò (University of Catania)

06/2019 – 07/2019
Agrigento (Italy): Recording, sampling, hand-drawing of artefacts
Prof. Caliò (University of Catania)

09/2016
Tannetum (Italy): Archaeological and survey campaign
Prof. Migliorati (Sapienza, University of Rome) and Prof. Carlsen
(Syddansk Universitet of Odense)

10/2015 – 02/2016
Rome – Aurelian Walls (Italy): Hand-drawn and total station recording
Prof. Ten (Sapienza, University of Rome)

10/2014
Canosa di Puglia (Italy): Archaeological campaign
Prof. Pensabene (Sapienza, University of Rome)

07/2014 – 08/2014
Peltuinum (Italy): Archaeological campaign
Prof. Migliorati (Sapienza, University of Rome)

05/2014 – 06/2014
Rome – Circus Maximus (Italy): Archaeological and survey campaign
Dr. Buonfiglio (Sovrintendenza di Roma Capitale)

03/2014 – 06/2013
Rome – Ludus Magnus (Italy): Hand-drawn and total station recording
Prof. Ten (Sapienza, University of Rome)

10/2012
Leopoli-Cencelle (Italy): Archaeological campaign
Prof. Stasolla (Sapienza, University of Rome).

10/2011
Rome – Palatine Hill (Italy): Archaeological campaign
Prof. Pensabene (Sapienza, University of Rome)

Lectures, Talks and Posters

10/2023
Talk: “The introduction of the Roman Bathing Culture in Sicily (2nd –
1st c. BC): New Actors, Interconnections, and Meanings”
International Conference “Urban Spaces. Formation and
Transformation in Ancient Sicily and Southern Italy” – Freie Universität
Berlin

10/2023
Organization of the International Conference “Urban Spaces. Formation and Transformation in Ancient Sicily and Southern Italy”
BerGSAS
Freie Universität Berlin

10/2023
Talk: “The introduction of the Roman Bathing Culture in Sicily (2nd –1st c. BC): New Actors, Interconnections, and Meanings”
International Conference “Roman Baths and Agency. The Human Factor in Designing, Building, Using, Experiencing and Maintaining Baths Buildings in Roman Territories” – Rome

05/2022
Talk: “La cultura termale romana in Sicilia attraverso i casi studio di Solunto e Taormina”
International Conference “La Sicilia tra le guerre civili e l’epoca giulioclaudia” – Palermo

01/2021
Talk: “Thermae Provinciae Siciliae: Roman Bathing Culture in the First Province (2nd c. BC – 4th c. AD)”
Online Workshop “Roman Baths and Thermo-Mineral Baths in Urban and (Micro-) Regional Perspectives” – Kiel University

06/2020
Talk: R. Brancato, V. Guarnera, T. Messina, P. Santospagnuolo
“Cultural routes e paesaggi archeologici in Sicilia: la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale nei processi di elaborazione dell’identità”
Conference “Oltre la Convenzione. Pensare, studiare e costruire il paesaggio 20 anni dopo” – Firenze

02/2020
Poster: R. Brancato, P. Santospagnuolo, M. S. Scaravilli, Sacred landscapes in Greek Sicily: rural sanctuaries in the chalcidian chora of the Ionian-Etnean area (8th-4th centuries BCE)
Workshop “The Archeology of Ritual” – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

09/2019
Organization of International Workshop and Conference “Architecture and the Ancient Economy” in collaboration with Prof. Trümper (Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Maschek (University of Oxford)
BerGSAS, Einstein Foundation Berlin, University of Oxford, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Topoi Building Dahlem

09/2019 
Poster: F. Tarlano, L. Migliorati, A. Ten, D. Canino, A. Vecchione, P. Santospagnuolo, V. Ferraguti, F. De Rossi, D. Lilli, L’impianto termale
principale di Grumentum (Basilicata). Attività di tutela e di ricerca 59° Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia – Taranto

09/2019
Presentation of the research project of the Roman Baths of Grumentum: “Archaeology for local communities”
Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio della Basilicata, Sapienza, University of Rome
European Heritage Days – Grumento Nova (Potenza),

05/2019
Lecture: “The bathing culture in Roman Sicily: current data and future prospects”
Ancient Architecture Discussion Group – University of Oxford, Lincoln College

03/2019
Talk: “Water management for bathing facilities: its effects in the landscape and cityscape of Catina and Syracusae”
International Open Workshop – Kiel University

03/2018
Lecture: “The Roman Baths in the Provinces of Catania and Syracuse as a sign of adherence to new customs” – Ragusa

Bathing Culture in Roman Sicily (2 c. BCE – 2 c. CE)

My research examines the development of bathing culture in Sicily, with particular focus on the period of Roman expansion and consolidation in the Island. For the first time, the evolutionary history of the phenomenon is outlined through a four-phase chronological framework (I–IV: 4th c. BCE to the 4th c. CE). This achievement was enabled also by fieldwork data, especially the survey of four bath complexes at Apollonia, Solunto, and Taormina (phases III–IV: 2nd c. BCE – 2nd c. CE). The choice of these sites aimed to fill a substantial gap in our knowledge concerning the forms, practices, and chronology of bathing culture from the late Republican to the early Imperial period. The re-evaluation of these monuments —supported by new phasing and reconstructive hypotheses— and their contextualization in the urban contexts contributes to reassess the role of the Island in the cultural dynamics of the Roman Mediterranean.

2023 
R. Brancato – V. Guarnera – T. Messina – P. Santospagnuolo, Creating Identity: Hidden Cultural Heritage, Ancient landscapes and Cultural Routes in Sicily, in: D. Panagiotopoulos – P. M. Militello (eds.), Modelling Archaeological Landscapes. Bridging Past and Present in Two Mediterranean Island (Heidelberg 2023) 243-271.

2022 
P. Santospagnuolo, Ceramica comune da mensa e da dispensa, in: L. M. Caliò – G. M. Gerogiannis – F. Leoni – G. Raimondi (eds.), Agrigento 2. Il santuario ellenistico-romano. Scavi 2013-2017. I materiali (Roma 2022) 151-314

P. Santospagnuolo, Tubuli fittili, in: L. M. Caliò – G. M. Gerogiannis – F. Leoni – G. Raimondi (eds.), Agrigento 2. Il santuario ellenistico-romano. Scavi 2013-2017. I materiali (Roma 2022) 591-596

M. Trümper – S. Kay – E. Pomar – A. Fino – Th. Lappi – P. Santospagnuolo, New Research at the Gymnasium of Agrigento, Archäologischer Anzeiger 2022, 132-167